Education:

Tom Eyers received his Ph.D. from the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University, London. He holds BA and Mphil. degrees from the University of Cambridge. His first book, ‘Lacan and the Concept of the Real', was published with Palgrave Macmillan in 2012. His second, ‘Post-Rationalism: Psychoanalysis, Epistemology and Marxism in Postwar France', first appeared with Bloomsbury in 2013, and then in a paperback edition in 2015. His third book, ‘Speculative Formalism: Literature, Theory, and the Critical Present', is forthcoming with Northwestern University Press in 2016. He serves as an Assistant Editor of the journal boundary 2: An International Journal of Literature and Culture'.

His research interests include the philosophy of literature and art, literary theory and literary criticism, psychoanalysis and 20th Century French philosophy.

Publications

Selected Publications:

Books

Lacan and the Concept of the ‘Real'Palgrave Macmillan 2012.

‘Tom Eyers does the impossible: he provides a systematic outline of the concept of the Real in all its manifestations, from its genesis and transformations to its clinical and philosophical implications'. - Slavoj Žižek

‘Eyers creatively advances a number of contemporary debates and discussions, masterfully revealing the philosophical power and richness Lacan offers his readers'. - Adrian Johnston

‘In its range of material and in its interpretive daring, Eyers's book is one of an ambition rarely seen today'. - Paul Earlie, Queen's College Oxford

‘Eyers has restored, with remarkable clarity and comprehensiveness, the crucial details of a bigger picture - one whose continuing reconstruction will further accentuate its political resonances, past and present'. - David Winters, Radical Philosophy